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BYU women rally from 18-point first-quarter deficit to beat San Diego in overtime

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WCC women's quarterfinals

No. 2 BYU 75, No. 7 San Diego 66 (OT)

LAS VEGAS — The BYU women’s basketball team started its West Coast Conference quarterfinal game Friday afternoon against San Diego like a bad country song.

Ill-advised passes. Turnovers. Airballs. A shot-clock violation.

“What are we doing?” coach Jeff Judkins asked himself when his team fell behind 21-3 late in the first quarter. “We’ve got ourselves so far in a hole we might not be able to get out of it.”

But the No. 3 seeded Cougars rallied from that 18-point deficit and outlasted the feisty No.